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Critically examine the turns and twists in the politics of partition in 1930’s and 1940’s.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Politics of Separatism

Partition was not the predetermined outcome of a linear march begun in the 1930s but the product of a genuinely contingent, repeatedly reversible sequence of negotiations, miscalculations, and missed alternatives.

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  • The Communal Award (1932) and the Poona Pact
  • The 1937 Elections and Congress Ministries
  • The League's Turn to Mass Contact (1937–39)
  • The Lahore Resolution (1940)
  • The Cripps Mission (1942) and Its Failure
  • Quit India and the Political Vacuum (1942–45)
  • …and 5 more sections, with a conclusion

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